Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960

All items in this file are photocopies from other collections or from a United States government Freedom of Information Act request. Merton donated his letters from Pasternak and carbon copies of this letters to the University of Kentucky.

Boris Pasternak was the Russian novelist and poet best known for Dr. Zhivago. This novel earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature, but, after the nomination, he was forced to leave the Soviet Writers' Union.

[see also the "FBI Materials and CIA Materials" file for a copy of Merton's letter intercepted and copied by the United States Central Intelligence Agency and thence forwarded to Pasternak]
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